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First North-South Metro Line in Hexi to Open by Year End

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This is a line which is going to make a big difference in the lives of a great many people in Nanjing. It’s the southern section of Metro Line 7; a total of nine stations, which, it has been revealed, shall be receiving their first passengers before 2023 is out.

Many are likely to be citizens heading to and from places such as BenQ Hospital or the southern Hexi CBD; home to Alibaba and the headquarters of Suguo; or Auchan and Decathlon further north.

The nine stations of Line 7 to open by year end shall be, from north to south, Yingtian Da Jie, Mengdu Da Jie, Xincheng Science Park, Zhongsheng, Jialingjiang Dong Jie, Yongchu Lu, Taiqing Lu, Luotang Lu and the Line’s southern terminus at Xishan Qiao.

Three stations along the Line are to be interchanges; Zhongshen, with Line 10; Yongchu Lu, with Line S3; and Luotang Lu, with Line 2.

While the Nanjing Metro network is no stranger to staggered openings for different sections of a line, Line 7 is an oddball in this regard.

With the northern section of Line 7 opened on 28 December of last year, the debut of the southern section shall, somewhat bizarrely, leave an unopened part of the Line in the middle.

Eight stations comprise the centre section, namely (from north to south) Zhongfu Lu, Fujian Lu, Guping Gang, Caochang Men, Qingliang Shan, Mochou Hu, Dashicha Ting and Nan Hu.

Of these, three shall be interchanges with existing stations; Mochou Hu and Caochang Men. Amongst the others, Fujian Lu stands out for being simultaneously built to accommodate two lines, Line 5 and Line 7.

Remaining to be seen is whether trains operating on the southern section will traverse the unopened-centre section, with its yet to be completed stations, to enable passengers to travel the entire length of the Line.

As the first fully-automated metro line in Nanjing, Line 7 passes through the districts of Qixia, Gulou, Jianye and Yuhuatai, with a total length of 35.49 kilometres. Fully 14 of its eventual 27 stations shall be interchanges.

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